Green Justice or Ethnic Injustice?

April 23, 2012

Alemayehu g mariam:

Blaming the Victim

Last week, dictator Meles Zenawi hectored his rubberstamp parliament in Ethiopia about the forced expulsion (or as some have described it “ethnic cleansing”) of Amharas from southern Ethiopia and zapped his critics for their irresponsibility in reporting and publicizing it. Zenawi denied any expulsion had taken place, but explained that some squatters (he described them as “sefaris from North Gojam”) had  to be removed from their homesteads in the south purely out of environmental conservation concerns for the area’s forestlands. In a broadside against organizations “that promote the view that our collective identity is Ethiopianity,” Zenawi harangued:

Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

April 23, 2012

Torture on Trial: Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

by David Swanson Published in a May / Jun 2012 Humanist http://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/

Cases come in by a thousands from all over a world. A male was beaten and whipped. A lady was beaten and raped. A child was hooded with 3 dull silt bags in 100-degree feverishness all day, starved, beaten, and kept in highlight positions. Alleged suicide victims had their hands tied behind their backs, had boot prints on their heads, or incited out to have been electrocuted. There are woe victims lonesome with cigarette burns, and woe victims with no visible injuries. They need a consultant assistance of doctors and lawyers to heal, to win asylum, and to emanate any arrange of accountability in courts of law.

Sudan MiGs explosve marketplace in South Sudan

April 23, 2012

By MICHAEL ONYIEGO Associated Press

BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) – Sudanese warplanes inebriated a vital city Monday in South Sudan, dispute a marketplace and murdering a child while wounding during slightest 10 people. South Sudanese infantry dismissed behind as a hazard of full-scale fight between a dual nations loomed.